Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest has sailed into the record books by becoming the fastest-selling DVD ever in the UK. Since it went on sale on November 20, it has sold 1.5m copies - accounting for one in every four DVD sales in the country. Demand has been so great that the film's producer, Disney, has ordered an extra million discs from its plant in Mexico. The previous record-holder for weekly DVD sales was Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, with 1.4m copies.

Willem Dafoe, Matthew Modine and Bob Hoskins are starring in Go Go Tales, a movie billed as a screwball comedy. It will probably be a comedy with a difference given that the director is Abel Ferrara, better known for dark, tortured dramas such as Bad Lieutenant, The Funeral and The Addiction. In the film, Dafoe will play the owner of a New York go-go bar whose brother and financial partner, played by Modine, threatens to pull out of the business. At the same time, the bar's dancers are threatening to go on strike. Filming began yesterday in Rome and will continue in New York in January.

Noah Wyle, aka ER's John Carter, is to make his directorial debut with Prince Test, a romantic comedy about a female private eye who uses unorthodox methods to prove the infidelities of married men. Filming is to begin in Chicago next April.